Letters, orders, reports and other military papers of J. F. Sessions, who was born in Franklin County in 1838 and who served as first lieutenant and captain of Company K (Quitman Rifles), Seventh Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, CSA, and later as captain of Company F and of Company B and major in Colonel Frank P. Powers' Regiment of Louisiana and Mississippi Cavalry. Major Sessions' company was mustered in on August 26, 1861; he resigned because of ill health in November 1862; in 1864, he was made a captain in Power's Regiment and in July lost an arm in an engagement near Clinton; on October 15, 1864, he was made commandant of the Post of Woodville; on January 30, 1865, he was promoted to act as major; and on April 14, 1865, he resigned as major. One letter (February 2, 1863) is from Secretary of War James A. Seddon, and another letter (January 3, 1865) is from Congressman John T. Lampkin. A document of August 1865 contains an agreement for 1865 between Sessions and his freedmen, and a letter of December 5, 1865, gives a partial account of his military service.